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Post by martinjwills on Jul 13, 2019 18:12:56 GMT
I use Panasonic Blu-Ray Recorders, linked to a very late VHS Recorder, via SCART, and the Panasonic records it a XP mode DVD 720x576 PAL. It does it at 1to1 as the tape has to play. It will record the resulting Recording to DVD at High Speed, and to Blu-Ray at 1to1 Speed needless as it could do it at High Speed if it wanted too. With a bit of Hex Header tweeking in the Playlist File [rpls] it can be tricked into a [Direct Recording] as if it was recorded off of Freeview. A H264 file conversion can then be done on the recorder at 1to1 faster than when done on a computer using Videostudio or similar. HG to HL modes can be selected with HE being close to HD freeview Quality. Once converted they cant be reconverted with the recorder.
Blu-ray disks seem to be the most stablle and can store 25gb to 50gb on a single disc. at HE Quality about 12 Hours per disk at 25gb.
I still keep the original VHS,
as it takes 3 1to1 runs per tape, its a job i do in the winter months.
I have done this with 1980 Not The Nine O'clock News recordings, it seems that very early VHS only used 288 lines on these VHS tapes.
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Post by martinjwills on Mar 14, 2019 18:53:15 GMT
A few years ago we said that there was a number [N] which at the time was somewhere between 0 and 96 [when web 3 was known to exist] which was the actual number of missing episodes, ie not laying in a dust layer in some far away place, or in private hands, or waiting to be returned etc. it would be nice to know the number N is at least ?, where episodes in the 97 are known to exist. But not who has them or where they are or what they are to keep the owners anonymity
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 11, 2019 16:34:01 GMT
Its interesting as the 2 recovered Dads Army Episodes from the earlier recovery were thought to have been made to show the film makers making the feature film of the series, so a 2nd copy of one of them builds hopes for the other 3 missing having been telerecorded along with this one at some point.
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 7, 2019 20:23:33 GMT
These were not language dubbed episodes so were probably never seen on air, and if there were only 2 cans seen the odds shorten greatly. if the 53 were returned to the BBC in the 1970s, Iran was still under the Shah and more UK friendly at that time.
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 5, 2019 20:25:56 GMT
In storage underground there is no oxygen like in a garden shed, so things tend to last a lot longer, film has been recovered from many years in landfill and was restored.
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 5, 2019 17:34:10 GMT
Marco Polo was the most widespread of the missing episodes, so could be in many 3rd world countries, so it could be any of these. here is a link to the missing episodes list missingepisodes.blogspot.com/p/howmanyprints.htmland at least 2 are listed as fate unknown
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 4, 2019 22:33:11 GMT
from destruction of time website
"Amongst these films was a 16mm print of The Abominable Snowmen 2. The print was passed to Ian Levine who returned it to the BBC. Two additional prints in the collection, The Space Museum 1 and The Moonbase 4, were redundant yet higher in quality to the existing BBC versions. " so were any of the others checked to see if they were also not suppressed field, Edge of destruction 2 needs the last few minutes in Stored field.
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Post by martinjwills on Feb 3, 2019 22:39:06 GMT
The Abominable Snowmen andInvasion of the DinosaursEdit Roger Stevens was working for the BBC as a film editor in the 1980s, and one morning, as he was travelling to work by train, he bumped into a BBC co-worker and they began to talk about Doctor Who episodes.[48] The BBC projectionist mentioned that he had nine episodes of Doctor Who that Stevens could buy for £25.[48] In the summer of 1981, Stevens bought The Space Museum episode one, The Abominable Snowmen episode two,The Moonbase episode four, Invasion of the Dinosaurs episode one, and three episodes ofCarnival of Monsters.[48] Stevens then contacted Ian Levine to find out what was missing from the BBC archive; Levine confirmed that The Abominable Snowmenepisode two and Invasion of the Dinosaursepisode one were currently missing.[48] Stevens gave these prints to Levine, who returned The Abominable Snowmen to the BBC in February 1982, although he held backInvasion of the Dinosaurs from the BBC for a while.[48] This was later returned to the BBC by Levine in June 1983, who then made a copy and returned the original to Levine.[49] The BBC projectionist mentioned that he had nine episodes of Doctor Who that Stevens could buy! Stevens bought
1 The Space Museum episode one 2 The Abominable Snowmen episode two 3 The Moonbase episode four 4 Invasion of the Dinosaurs episode one 5-7 three episodes ofCarnival of Monsters
if that was the case what were the other 2 episodes? and
"The BBC projectionist mentioned that he had nine episodes of Doctor Who that Stevens could buy", what about other episodes he couldnt buy ?
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 29, 2019 23:40:12 GMT
missing radio is far more likely to turn up as reel to reel audio recorders were common in the early 70s to a lot of children even, and to olders before that, hence why audio to all Dr Whos exists, video recorders didnt become common to the mid-1980s even then the early 1980s home VHS was only 288 lines rather than 576. my 1980 VHS recordings of Not The Nine O'clock news show this when converted to 576. We shall see in all the Top20 shows turn up as they were recorded by lots of children at the time.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 29, 2019 10:20:02 GMT
Also the BBC would send on other used prints eg eps 1&2 Marco Polo to other possible sales, and the prints to ZDF in Germany, so wouldnt produce new audition prints, they could also have sent out ones from the pile at Villiers in 1975 to countries still broadcasting in B&W
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 28, 2019 8:38:45 GMT
There have been some recoveries of playable films from landfill, not Dr Who, but if i remember a link was put on here many years ago to one of them. The Desert Dig by PM will be the most interesting when we find out the details, and it may then lead to more similar research, but needs to be done before staff retire, at least in PMs case they knew where they were put, and didnt need to search. The Bluebell Railway in Sussex we opened a section of railway that was used as landfill and found quite a bit of stuff in reasonable contition, the timing was a bit early for BBC dumping though, as it was in the late 1960s when it closed. Landfill sites in the UK in 1976 would be the era.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 21, 2019 21:18:47 GMT
Quite a few of the returned episodes were sold/aquired at Boot/film Fairs in the 1980s, we dont know if all that were sold have turned up so far.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 21, 2019 20:47:22 GMT
Then a few weeks after that statement Enemy and web were anounced. They were then held by the BBC! I think they were copied to HD and the originals returned to PM,
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 21, 2019 16:16:17 GMT
“T.I.E.A. does not hold any missing episodes of the long-running Dr Who series… They are not missing but destroyed. The end.” <= Quote of the statement released. Then a few weeks after that statement Enemy and web were anounced.
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Post by martinjwills on Jan 21, 2019 8:39:19 GMT
Trying not to read too much into PM statements as they are a rabbit hole, I keep thinking along a few lines. "Ties does not hold any missing episodes of dw..." Nobody holds any missing episodes of Dr Who, and never have, because if they have them, they are not missing, they played on words just before the last reveal. So PMs statement is true even if his storage is full of film cans and a few Dr Who remember "Web of fear hasnt been returned complete". was said a few times in 2013
we didnt hear "Tiea doesnt hold any Dr Who episodes that are not in the BBC Archive".
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